Grace, Twins, Danny
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- The Twins , Grace & Danny
- Jackson & Pierrot
- 9 yrs old, at a loss w/ their situation
- Force to act in the play, then began to like it
- Decided to run away, left a note - cause panic and an opportunity for the crime of **** to be committed
- Pierrot returns at the end - overcome w/emotion at the performance of Trials of Arabella
- ‘troubled small boys far from home’
- ‘Pierrot began to sob, but quietly, still mindful of being in a strange house where politeness was all’
- ‘they had diluted their identities…one could only know them generally’
- ‘[Lola’s] not talking to us at the moment’ … ‘she hates us’
- ‘We are going to run away because Lola and Betty are horrid to us and we want to go home’
- 'much shrivelled…but still twinkly as ever and very much the paterfamilias. It was accepted that we never mention his sister'
- ‘completely overcome and put his face in his hands. Was he reliving that lonely, terrifying time here after his parents’ divorce?’
- Grace Turner
- R's mom, Tallis' charlady
- Abandoned by husband for no reason - Jack employs her to help, acts as a clairvoyant on the side for the other employees
- Jack gives her complete ownership of the small cabin - gratitude for her labour
- Loved by all the children; kind and a mother figure for Leon & C
- Stood by R's innocence
- ‘Her good nature…made her popular, but it was the adoration she aroused in the six-year-old Cecilia and her eight-year-old brother Leon that was the saving of her, and the making of Robbie'
- ‘Emily’s long illness. Grace's helpfulness secured her position…the freehold of the bungalow was not hers, irrespective of the position she held with the Tallises’
- Danny Hardman
- Works on the Tallis' estate
- R & C accuse him of the ****
- Reps the lower class pubescent male coming to terms w/ physical desires
- Limited evidence to accuse him of the ****.
- Exonerated by B when she tells the truth to C & R
- Joined British Navy during the war
- ‘she had noticed him hanging around the children lately. Perhaps he was interested in Lola. He was sixteen, and certainly no boy. The roundness she remembered in his cheeks had gone, and the childish bow of his lips had become elongated and innocently cruel’
- ‘Danny Hardman was there too, leering at their sister when he should have been at work’
- ‘Cecilia felt the gaze of the young Hardman on her. She returned it fiercely, and was gratified when he turned away’
- Jackson & Pierrot
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